We understand that a meeting of the Marston's Mills Lyceum is being called on the second Tuesday in June, for the purpose of discussing the expediency of legislating upon what we shall eat, or what and how much we shall drink. The meeting will doubtless be interesting; if not, it will be different from the general character of the meeting of that flourishing institution.

1868

Large quantities of Herring are now being taken by the Nine Mile pond Fishing Company, who is disposing of them at low rates, and all our citizens should now lay in a good supply.

1898

About two o'clock on Saturday night a loud explosion was in the vicinity of the Yarmouth railroad station. It was discovered that the safe in the office of the John Hinckley & Sons, east of the station, had been blown open with dynamite. Mr. Frank H. Hinckley was quickly summoned, but the burglars had already finished their work and escaped.

1908

The approaching summer promises to be a most successful one on Cape Cod. People who desire to live like kings, but have only the pocket-book of a commoner, should come down here. You will not be wrong to take any part of the Cape you choose. The same health-giving ocean air, the same sweet cleanliness to indulge in seaside sports will greet you from Provincetown to Sandwich, from the shore on the north to that on the south.

1918

A new type of dirigible balloon that is nearly completed at the naval aero station at Chatham is to be given a test within the next few days which will take it to Boston. The naval officers of the district are anxious to let the people know this, so that they will not become alarmed at its presence in the air.

1928

The entire fire apparatus of Hyannis, Osterville and Centerville fire departments fought a fire which swept through woodland from a point near the Bianca shops on the Hyannis-Centerville road to a short distance from the railroad tracks in Yarmouth. The fire started just before noon and for awhile swept at terrific rate through the woods, cutting a wide swath, from a quarter mile wide for a distance of about eight miles. The blaze leaped across the West Barnstable cut-off and later over the Hyannis-Barnstable road. A last stand was taken at the railroad tracks in Yarmouth, not far from the John Hinckley & Son Company. Every effort was made to choke the fire before it reached that point.

1938

Charles Smith, age ten, whose parents have a summer house in South Hyannis, was rescued from his capsized skiff Sunday morning by fireman Bill Cook. Bill arrived just ahead of a police rescue expedition. It seems that Johnson and a chum, Ross Richards went out in their small skiffs that morning for picnic. They tied their skiffs together and ate their lunches, but when untying Johnson's skiff capsized sending him to the water.

1948

Miss Doris I. Bassett, office manager of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, left today for New York where she will be in charge of the Chamber’s literature and information desk at the Cape Cod exhibition, conducted in the east balcony of Grand Central Terminal as a part of the New Haven Railroad’s “Main Street, Southern New England” exhibit… The huge display … set up for the entire month features a 70-foot stretch of real Cape Cod beach sand… Miss Bassett will return to the Cape on the Cape Codder when it makes its first run of the season June 11. On this initial trip of the deluxe summer train will be a group of travel and fashion editors from magazines and newspapers in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia.

1958

One of the hottest controversies in recent months is raging in Osterville over the placing of 65 parking meters in the business district of that village. Business men of the village have expressed the opinion that meters are not needed and the parking can be well controlled without them.

1968

Flags flew at half staff throughout Barnstable as the town, like the world, mourned the death of New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was felled by an assassin's bullet following his victory speech in Los Angles early Wednesday morning.

1978

A Marstons Mills contractor is protesting a competitor's summer transportation award. Father and son Edwin and David Pina told the school committee it shouldn't give Barnstable Bus Co., the contract because BBC doesn't have the necessary special state permits. The Hyannis based BBC bid $4,421 to provide four buses for the high schools Title 1 summer program. Northside Bus Service at $5,750 and the Pina's at $5,760.

1988

Barnstable selectmen are planning a debate with U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas on a proposed building moratorium affecting Cape Cod. According to Barnstable Selectman Francis Broadhurst, a debate is needed in Barnstable because it is the largest town on the Cape and will be affected the most by Tsongas' proposal.

1998

The town of Barnstable has been put on notice that at least one outfit believes Hyannis would be a good location for an adult nightclub with full alcohol service. A business certificate application for a club called The Runway at 73 Thornton Drive was filed with the town clerk's office placing added weight on the town council's shoulder to approve the proposed adult zone now before it.